ears since, with a
different object, namely, a daring robbery, but precisely as
here described. A complete account of the case will be
found, with authority and evidence, in a pamphlet entitled
_Eine experimentale Studie auf dem Gebiete des Hypnotismus_,
by Dr. R. von Krafft-Ebing, Professor of Psychiatry and for
nervous diseases, in the University of Gratz. Second
Edition, Stuttgart, Ferdinand Enke, 1889. It is not
possible, in a work of fiction, to quote learned authorities
at every chapter, but it may be said here, and once for all,
that all the most important situations have been taken from
cases which have come under medical observation within the
last few years.

Unorna was hardly conscious of what she had done. She had not had the
intention of making Beatrice sleep, for she had no distinct intention
whatever at that moment. Her words and her look had been but the natural
results of overstrained passion, and she repeated what she had said
again and again, and gazed long and fiercely into Beatrice's face before
she realised that she had unintentionally thrown her rival and enemy
into the intermediate state. It is rarely that the first stage of
hypnotism produces the same consequences in two different individuals.
In Beatrice it took the form of total unconsciousness, as though she had
merely fainted away.

Unorna gradually regained her self-possession. After all, Beatrice had
told her nothing which she did not either wholly know or partly guess,
and her anger was not the result of the revelation but of the way in
which the story had been told. Word after word, phrase after phrase had
cut her and stabbed her to the quick, and when Beatrice had thrust the
miniature into her hands her wrath had risen in spite of herself.
But now that she had returned to a state in which she could think
connectedly, and now that she saw Beatrice asleep before her, she did
not regret what she had unwittingly done. From the first moment when,
in the balcony over the church, she had realised that she was in the
presence of the woman she hated, she had determined to destroy her. To
accomplish this she would in any case have used her especial weapons,
and though she had intended to steal by degrees upon her enemy, lulling
her to sleep by a more gentle fascination, at an hour when the whole
convent should be quiet, yet since the first step had been made
unexpectedly and without h